On January 6th 2021, Facebook and Twitter disabled US president Donald Trump’s accounts. Citing risk for further incitement of violence, Twitter permanently suspended the president’s account, while Facebook has disabled…

Facebook, Twitter and Google have been called out by a group of British politicians whose inquiry into hate crime has highlighted their failing efforts to prevent extremism on their platforms….

Efforts by US-state North Dakota to create a contact tracing app to aid the state’s coronavirus recovery, reveals the true extent of Google and Apple’s influence over national decisions.  These…

Facebook has announced plans to operate its own digital currency – the Libra – from 2020. It will be a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, but far more stable as it will…

The BBC has introduced an interactive social and news platform created for the sole purpose of informing on climate change. Through Facebook Messenger, the user speaks with a “chat bot” to…

The dating app Tinder, which entered the Indian market in 2016, has added 23 new gender identities for Indian users to add to their profiles.  To select the 23 gender…

An Indian start-up called Metafact is drawing on artificial intelligence to try and combat the fake news crisis. The Dehli-based company founded in 2017 hopes to use AI to empower…

People in China can now file for divorce on WeChat, the country’s most popular instant messaging service. The app, which has an estimated one billion active users worldwide, rolled out…

Ugandans have been protesting what has been dubbed a “social media tax” introduced by their government. Since the start of July, access to social media networks and dating sites has…

A US population survey done in 2017 suggests that poetry reading in the country has increased by 5% from figures recorded in 2012. This is the first time in the…

Papua New Guinea will have access to Facebook temporarily turned off for a month in order for the Government’s analysts to study the platform’s impact on the propagation of fake news…